Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone
A Novel
by Stefan Kiesbye
Penguin Group USA
Penguin Books
Pub Date
Description
Shirley Jackson meets The Twilight Zone in this riveting novel of supernatural horror—for readers who loved Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children
A village on the Devil‘s Moor: a place untouched by time and shrouded in superstition. There is the grand manor house whose occupants despise the villagers, the small pub whose regulars talk of revenants, the old mill no one dares to mention. This is where four young friends come of age—in an atmosphere thick with fear and suspicion. Their innocent games soon bring them face-to-face with the village‘s darkest secrets in this eerily dispassionate, astonishingly assured novel, infused with the spirit of the Brothers Grimm and evocative of Stephen King‘s classic short story “Children of the Corn” and the films The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke and Village of the Damned by Wolf Rilla.
A village on the Devil‘s Moor: a place untouched by time and shrouded in superstition. There is the grand manor house whose occupants despise the villagers, the small pub whose regulars talk of revenants, the old mill no one dares to mention. This is where four young friends come of age—in an atmosphere thick with fear and suspicion. Their innocent games soon bring them face-to-face with the village‘s darkest secrets in this eerily dispassionate, astonishingly assured novel, infused with the spirit of the Brothers Grimm and evocative of Stephen King‘s classic short story “Children of the Corn” and the films The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke and Village of the Damned by Wolf Rilla.
Advance Praise
Creepy in a way that actually made me quite nervous."
-Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
"A brilliant amalgam of Faulkner, the Brothers Grimm, and Gunter Grass as if condensed for intensity."
-Josip Novakovich, author of Fiction Writing Workshop and Writing Fiction Step By Step
"Quick, hypnotic, and intensely creepy. The characters are all doomed. ‘Doomed to what?' is the only question, and you won't put the book down until you find out."
-Christopher Buehlman, author of Those Across the River and Between Two Fires
Available Editions
| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9780143121466 |
| PRICE | $15.00 (USD) |
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